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Friday, August 31, 2012

The Dibbuk Box: There's a Ghost in my Web Stats

So I just noticed a strange spike in visits to the JMMM blog. This most often happens after a showing of the Demi Moore film, The Seven Sign. But this one is different. A huge number of visits to entries on Exorcism and Dibbuks / Dybbuks. I was puzzled, but now I understand. It's unusual for me to be caught off guard when it comes to movies, but it just happened -- I had no idea the horror movie Possession: The Dibbuk Boxhad a Jewish theme to it. Well, I haven't had a chance to see it yet (33% in Rotten Tomatoes - that's Ashton Kutcher bad!), but I thought I'd facilitate online seekers by grouping all the links to relevant topics on the JMMM right here...

2 Comments:

Isn't it strange how popculture affects what we write and how people respond to it. If you look enough, you may discover there hasn't been an original idea in years! Dropping by to say hi. I didn't make the last synchroblog but the piece is done at www.whenisisrises.blogspot.com. Hope you drop by.

Thanks for this. I've been writing a nineteenth-century ghost-hunter series, and I've been doing a lot of reading into non-Christian mythological structures, so this is very helpful. I also have a layman's interest in Biblical history and mythology. This is a wonderful resource you've compiled.

About Me

Geoff Dennis is rabbi of Congregation Kol Ami and teaches Kabbalah and Rabbinic Literature in the Jewish Studies Program at the University of North Texas. He is the author of The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic, and Mysticism, a 2007 National Book Award finalist, and recipient of an Honorable Mention for the 2007 Jewish Library Council Book Award. He has written numerous articles. The most recent, "Purity and Transformation:The Mimetic Performance of Scriptural Texts in the Ritual of Taharah," is in the Journal of Ritual Studies 26 (1), 2012.